Allegedly, on or about 19 June 2017, Tom Horsley sent: > The sites that crack me up are the ones which have rules > like "you can only use letters and numbers" in your password. > Why? That just means anyone trying to guess passwords has > a much simpler job. I can guess two reasons: Some special characters might get interpreted by their software, rather than accepted as-is. Some special characters can't by typed on all computers, or their users can't type them properly. e.g. How many times do you see the Brits mis-use the backtick as an apostrophe? -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 (always current details of the computer that I'm writing this email on) Boilerplate: All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages posted to the mailing list. Just because nobody complains, it doesn't mean that all parachutes are perfect. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
